NYPD Bike Equipment Checkpoint Snares Cyclists For Missing Bells
Check your bells, New York City cyclists, and check your reflectors. The NYPD looks to be stepping up its bike safety efforts -- not by ticketing speeding motorists or bike lane blockers, and not even by citing reckless cyclists, but with checkpoints for improperly equipped bikes. Based on an initial report, the checkpoints seem more like an exercise in cyclist harassment than an effort to help cyclists ride safely.
June 1, 2012
DOT Plans Four Pairs of Midtown Bike Lanes in Time for Bike-Share
Has any district in New York City ever seen the kind of bike infrastructure transformation coming to Midtown in 2012?
May 31, 2012
After Traffic Claims Another Life on ACP Blvd, Will CB 10 Take Action?
A motorist struck two women crossing Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem last Sunday evening, according to the NYPD. One, 35 years old, died from her injuries at Lincoln Hospital. Police did not release the names of the victims.
May 31, 2012
Transit-Free Tappan Zee Bridge Financial Plan: It’s “Dynamic”!
The Cuomo administration plans to select a team to build the new Tappan Zee Bridge this summer and begin construction this year. So it's about time for the governor to say how he plans to pay for the bridge, right?
May 29, 2012
You Can’t Catch Speeders If You Don’t Have a Radar Gun
Here's how unconcerned the New York Police Department is with deadly traffic violations: For at least a month, and possibly longer, reports DNAinfo, Brooklyn's 76th Precinct went without a radar gun.
May 25, 2012
Uptown Transit Riders Fight for 125th Street Select Bus Service
Select Bus Service is a big success on First and Second Avenues and 34th Street. Speeds are up, ridership is up, and the MTA is using the time savings to run even more buses along the busy corridors. So where in Manhattan is next for the popular package of bus improvements? One group of uptown transit riders hopes the answer is 125th Street.
May 24, 2012
Braving Double-Parked Parents, MS 51 Students Bike to School in Droves
Based on this picture of rows of temporary bike racks, all filled, it looks like MS 51's Bike-To-School Day was a big hit (photo via Lara Lebeiko of Bicycle Habitat, which provided volunteers for the event). Escorted rides, or "bike buses," took students from Sunset Park, Carroll Gardens and Windsor Terrace/Kensington to the Park Slope school and back. During the day, a bike skills and safety course helped teach the students how to ride on their own.
May 23, 2012